In Cyprus’s case, its banking sector became much bigger than the country’s government could afford to rescue –seven times the size of the country’s economy. When the banks were hit by large losses and Cyprus could not afford to bail it out on its own, the country turned to the other 16 European Union countries that use the euro.

Rather than making Europe’s taxpayers foot the entire bill for bad banking, Cyprus and the other eurozone countries agreed to make the banks’ bondholders and big depositors contribute to the rescue.

Depositors and investors have taken note of the Cyprus deal and are warily looking around at other countries where the financial sector appears too big or too unstable.

[ Q: If a country is said to owe over 12 trillion dollars and if the real amount owed may be lots more –what will wary depositors and investors make of that ?

“A year after their trial started, two years after the alleged incidents, these medics have finally been vindicated after being mistreated or tortured in custody,” Brian Dooley of Human Rights First told the BBC.

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UVA) or drone of the US [World Tyrant]-NATO invaders, in an attempt to gather intelligence about Mujahideen fighters, was shot down Friday by Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan] during an armed attack in Ab Band district, Ghazni province.

The surveillance aircraft plunged…[to] the ground and blew open, the wreck of which was taken by Mujahideen.

Mujahideen got hands on two of the missiles installed in the craft that remained.